I'm told my grandfather photographed early atomic bomb tests, which is why my mother grew up on a Strategic Air Command base. He died in the 1980s, relatively y

I'm told my grandfather photographed early atomic bomb tests, which is why my mother grew up on a Strategic Air Command base. He died in the 1980s, relatively young (though smoking contributed) and matters of his health and his pension were also subject to bureaucratic limbo. My other grandfather trained to operate a Davey Crockett missile (the shoulder-launched missile with a M388 atomic warhead). I'm mostly just glad to live in a world where I worry about terrorism instead of global thermonuclear annihilation...